13. And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Complete your work, your daily amount, as when there was straw.”
14. Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl, whom Pharaoh’s slave-drivers had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?”
15. And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way?
16. “There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And see, your servants are beaten, but your own people are at fault.”
17. But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and slaughter to יהוה.’
18. “So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks.”
19. And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl saw that they were in trouble after it was said, “You are not to diminish your daily amount of bricks.”
20. And when they came out from Pharaoh, they met Mosheh and Aharon who stood there to meet them.
21. And they said to them, “Let יהוה look on you and judge, because you have made us loathsome in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.”
22. And Mosheh returned to יהוה and said, “יהוה, why have You done evil to this people? Why did You send me?
23. “For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done evil to this people. And You have not delivered Your people at all.”